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Lenten Fish-Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and saffron work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 781 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Lenten Fish-Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the blood of pikes or conger eel.

  2. Chop the pieces of pikes, conger eel, great cod, and ling into small pieces.

  3. Add the chopped fish to the boiled blood.

  4. Soak the crusts of white bread in water and strain through a cloth.

  5. Boil and mince the onions.

  6. Mix in pepper, saffron, wine, and vinegar.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + saffrontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + saffrontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Wine + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,493 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Saffron + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, pepper, saffron, wine, vinegar):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pepper, saffron, wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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